Manual Wordpess Version Check

December 15, 2009wordpresscheck, plugin, upgrade, version, wordpressMihai

When a new wordpress version is released you'll probably find out about it sooner then it will be available for automatic installation in your wordpress admin.

This is because wordpress checks for new versions twice a day,but the check is scheduled based on the time when you installed wordpress so unless you're lucky you'll have to wait for up to 12 hours before the update shows up in your wordpress admin and use it.

This gave me the idea that it would be nice if you could check manually as soon as you find out about the upgrade, so I created this plugin that just gives you a button that you click and it will check to see if there's an update available right away. If it finds on it shows you the upgrade link.

Download: [download id="20"]

To check for an update go to wordpress admin -> Tools -> Version Check

Help saving MySQL

December 14, 2009Generalhelp, MySQL, saveMihai

MySQL is in danger of dying slowly.

If this happens, anyone running a blog on wordpress and lot of other web and non web applications are going to be in trouble. No more frequent updates, no more in time bug fixes, no more development, possibly higher prices for commercial licenses.

Here's the cause: Oracle is trying to buy Sun and since Sun bough MySQL last year, Oracle is going to end up owning MySQL.

Why is this bad for MySQL?

Well basically Oracle doesn't have any interest in promoting and developing this database server when they already have one that makes them more money. By buying MySQL Oracle eliminates the competition and everybody knows where there's no competition Bad Things Happen TM.

You can read more about the story and also find out how you can help with this on this post: Help Saving MySQL from the creator of MySQL.

This week on twitter 2009-12-13

December 13, 2009GeneraltweetsMihai

I like http://thetwitcleaner.com. Shows you who you should unfollow and makes it easy to do it #
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RT: @jeremyjaymes: Donâ€™t Get Hacked: WordPress Security Tips http://bit.ly/7g9rob #
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RT: @mcbuzz: Google will personalize your search results whether u like it or not. (they claim u can turn it off) http://bit.ly/6uGbX6 #
@yoast it's a really good class. Something like that should be available in core #wordpress. Thank you! in reply to yoast #
RT: @rebeccaglant: Add linkback to your article in your feeds with RSS Footer #wordpress plugin http://bit.ly/ifqK (via @denharsh) #
@donncha no backup for /var ? mysql db, logs, email ? in reply to donncha #
@donncha I almost always run #lamp on my desktop 🙂 in reply to donncha #
@lorandm de outlook nu poti sa te apropii dar poti sa-l depasesti - teoria relativitatii 🙂 in reply to lorandm #
RT: @chrispian: Reading: Twitter: All Developers Will Get Access to the Firehose in Early 2010 http://bit.ly/5fhTRU #
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Hard Disk http://ff.im/cFNur #
RT: @andrew_rickmann: WP Questions http://bit.ly/5hJApw is a great idea. #
RT: @Pritchard9: RT @MurrayMelb: When inspiration comes I want it to find me working. - Pablo Picasso. #quote #
The Funniest Facebook Snafus Of All Time (PICTURES) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/the-funniest-facebook-sna_n_383847.html #
The idea of "canonical plugins" for #wordpress is nice, let's vote to change the name though: http://tinyurl.com/ykovuuq #
RT: @thomasfuchs: With all the @, # and / tweets are starting to look like ugly code. îš #
@HunterClarke someone who wanted people to talk about it's name 🙂 in reply to HunterClarke #
The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations http://ff.im/cIgVZ #
AOL Updates & Streamlines Their Postmaster Site http://ff.im/cJwx8 #
How to Make Money From Your List - Co-Registration Done The Proper Way http://ff.im/cJT2z #
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Computers Quotes http://ff.im/cJZ3V #
browsing #chrome extensions. Chrome is finally a serious threat to #firefox #
RT: @yoast: Hilarious, UX Lead for Symbian just said: "I have this game on my iPhone" to the #dfcmob crowd 🙂 #
I wonder how hard it would be to port #firebug to #chrome. That would really make me switch all activity to chrome #
@JMChia thanks, It's not quite as good but I think we're on the right track 🙂 in reply to JMChia #
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trying to search in a csv file with #openoffice and it just doesn't work. Tried both simple and regular expression. Any idea ? #
retracting my previous statement about #openoffice's inability to search. I'd say half was my mistake 🙂 #
@jermainemaree one of my debian boxes wasn't rebooted in 515 days 🙂 in reply to jermainemaree #

This week on twitter 2009-12-06

December 6, 2009GeneraltweetsMihai

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looking at: MinuteTraders, a new VoIP peering platform
http://bit.ly/7JnnjZ #ad #
How We Made Our Car Run on Grease | MNN - Mother Nature Network http://ff.im/cdKZl #
are twitter ads evil? http://mashable.com/2009/11/29/twitter-ads-2/ #
@mihaibrehar apt-get install bind 🙂 in reply to mihaibrehar #
RT: @filipcte: did you know that all style tags after the first 30 style tags on an HTML page are not applied in IE? http://bit.ly/XDmyB #
is there a twitter directory that allows you to easily follow everyone in a certain category? #
@rodolforeis tried but doesn't seem to work. When I click "add column" it just tries to install tweetdeck which is already installed in reply to rodolforeis #
@rodolforeis I guess Linux/Firefox 3.5.6pre /Tweetdeck integration is not so good 🙂 in reply to rodolforeis #
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Linux kernel swear counts http://ff.im/ckKYf #
RT: @filipcte: shortest url.. shortner - http://to./ (this is super-weird) #
@filipcte wasn't really a mystery but to put a url shortener on a country tld is something unseen before in reply to filipcte #
@filipcte most url validators ( including the one at twitter ) will think this is an invalid url cause all expect the domain.tld format in reply to filipcte #
@gawel_ yes it does, twitter doesn't recognize it as a valid url ( they don't link it on the site ) cause they expect the domain.tld format in reply to gawel_ #
@alexconrad it's a valid domain, just like any other, but it's very likely that a lot of url validators will not see it this way in reply to alexconrad #
@alexconrad Cutme ? in reply to alexconrad #
@alexconrad really? how do you know that? All i can see on the page is the two fields with the "Witz that URL!" button in reply to alexconrad #
@alexconrad ah because you were looking at http://www.to. and I was looking at http://to/ in reply to alexconrad #
@alexconrad maybe they show the simple interface to mobile users and they thing my firefox 3.5.6 on linux is mobile 🙂 in reply to alexconrad #
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now you can start an amazon ec2 instance from an EBS volume. This simplifies the whole process #
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@HughBriss most phone companies take your money after 30 days, what abut that scam? in reply to HughBriss #
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This week on twitter 2009-11-29

November 29, 2009GeneraltweetsMihai

ugrading ubuntu to 9.10 on an old inspiron 1501 ... hopefully the graphics will still work 🙂 #
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the new #ubuntu takes one minute to login ... I thought the new version was supposed to be faster... #
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RT: @tvdw: Why the average computer nerd has big hands? They have 2 reach Ctrl+Alt+Del with a cup of coffee in the other hand. #
@tvdw that would only be valid for average windows nerds 🙂 in reply to tvdw #
@AlexVolocaru de ce ? in reply to AlexVolocaru #
@AlexVolocaru faina idee! in reply to AlexVolocaru #
@vvaz not really... mostly low paying projects last time I checked in reply to vvaz #
GENERIC CIALIS on my website? I think my site has been hacked! http://ff.im/c3Ymm #
Schema Sync &8250; a MySQL Schema Versioning and Migration Utility http://ff.im/c42fi #
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Echofon would be nicer if I could select/copy only part of a tweet #

OpenID server on php 5.3

November 26, 2009wordpressopenid, php, wordpressMihai

You want to turn your blog into an OpenID server so you can login to sites accepting OpenID with your own OpenID url.One nice advantage of this is that if you're already logged into your blog you don't have to provide a username and password anymore.

The Problem

You install the OpenID plugin, configure it as a server, but you run php 5.3 and the server part of this plugin doesn't work with PHP 5.3.

The Solution

Download my patch ( for OpenId 3.3.2 plugin ) :[download id="19"]

Copy to wp-content/plugins and run:

patch < openid-server-php.5.3.diff

For the lazy ones here's a version of the OpenID plugin that's already patched: [download id="18"]

Just install it instead of the original plugin.

This week on twitter 2009-11-22

November 22, 2009GeneraltweetsMihai

RT: @mihaibrehar: :))))) RT: @stefanteisanu "Team work is a group of people doing what I say". #
pbzip2: parallel bzipping http://ff.im/bHa75 #
@wptavern no, look at drupal 🙂 in reply to wptavern #
How to tell if someone is bullshitting http://ff.im/bJmNr #

This week on twitter 2009-11-15

November 15, 2009GeneraltweetsMihai

@mihaibrehar chiar asa e in reply to mihaibrehar #
RT: @gamerz: I find the term RESTful server funny, because the server hardly gets any rest from the tons of API request #
@f055 all the power is in the command line 🙂 in reply to f055 #
@bensonk42 nobody will ever thank you for fixing a bug, it's your fault the bug was there 😀 in reply to bensonk42 #
@aliverson tell that to all the vbuletin forums out there. The "best" is when you have to pay for them to let you in to unsubscribe 🙂 in reply to aliverson #
@bensonk42 well then 80% of the internet should be thanking them in reply to bensonk42 #
RT: @markjaquith: Do scientists hate climatologists 4 figuring out the "tell people they're going 2 die, profit" model? #
I don't like mythv , any better alternatives ? #
#wordpress comments admin is a really bad interface . I wish there was a simple way to reply to a comment after I approve it #
@oldmanuk thanks, I'll give it a try in reply to oldmanuk #
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WTF Code http://ff.im/bobny #
Hammer time http://ff.im/bpfDG #
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe http://ff.im/bppiY #
@dozba sometimes the commit comment is longer then the actual change...and for that case "Stuff" is good 🙂 in reply to dozba #
here's my dream filesystem: http://seznamfs.sourceforge.net/ combined with : http://www.nilfs.org/ #

This week on twitter 2009-11-08

November 8, 2009GeneraltweetsMihai

why isn't twitter using SSL on the login page? it's like they want to encourage phishing #
@RetailEmailBlog no it isn't, even the belief that it's ok to send even without a relationship is not dead, that's why we still have spam in reply to RetailEmailBlog #
@vladgidea tare, si mai tare era daca juca GTA4 in GTA4 in GTA4 in GTA4 ....:) in reply to vladgidea #
#thunderbird 3.0 is a total mess, I can't get used the moved controls, can't easily mark multiple messages as spam and doesn't move them #
@yoast congratulations! in reply to yoast #
Next-generation Linux file systems: NiLFS(2) and exofs http://ff.im/b5zBh #

This week on twitter 2009-11-01

November 1, 2009GeneraltweetsMihai

Re: Brian Aker debates with Richard Stallman http://ff.im/av3FC #
anyone have #openid #wordpress plugin working on php 5.3 ? #
@hashwordpress @amberweinberg fyi I'm interested in the openid server functionality in reply to amberweinberg #
Re: 85,000 reasons why Appleâ€™s iPhone isnâ€™t going to be disrupted http://ff.im/avcKe #
State of the art: Galera â€“ synchronous replication for InnoDB http://ff.im/aBiCM #
Batch Plugin-Update in WordPress 2.9 http://ff.im/aDUKM #
@musterr sigur ca a fost buna daca scopul a fost sa bagi tara si mai mult in groapa in reply to musterr #
I just noticed pidgin says it has voice and video support for xmpp . Now how do I use it ? #
@Sengupta I already have skype for that 😀 in reply to Sengupta #
@xangua I'm already on linux. ubuntu 9.04 pidgin 2.6.3 ? Do I need to rebuild pidgin? in reply to xangua #
@romerican thanks. Replied to your comment: http://bit.ly/2fuMMR in reply to romerican #
what's more important to have a lot of followers or to be in a lot of very followed lists ? #
@HughBriss i suggested this two weeks ago: http://twitter.com/mihaisecasiu/status/4913544052 in reply to HughBriss #
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